Varro's Servant Thou art not altogether a fool.
Fool Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as
I have, so much wit thou lackest.
APEMANTUS That answer might have become Apemantus.
All Servants Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.
[Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS]
APEMANTUS Come with me, fool, come.
Fool I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
woman; sometime the philosopher.
[Exeunt APEMANTUS and Fool]
FLAVIUS Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon.
[Exeunt Servants]
TIMON You make me marvel: wherefore ere this time
Had you not fully laid my state before me,
That I might so have rated my expense,
As I had leave of means?
FLAVIUS You would not hear me,
At many leisures I proposed.
TIMON Go to:
Perchance some single vantages you took.
When my indisposition put you back:
And that unaptness made your minister,
Thus to excuse yourself.
FLAVIUS O my good lord,
At many times I brought in my accounts,
Laid them before you; you would throw them off,
And say, you found them in mine honesty.
When, for some trifling present, you have bid me
Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;
Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you
To hold your hand more close: I did endure
Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have
Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
And your great flow of debts.
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